Kabus 22

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2006 video game

TUR: Vestel
Other: Merscom

Designer(s)Yasin Demirden
Yakup DemirdenEngineGamestudioPlatform(s)WindowsRelease

TUR: 25 December 2006
POL: 24 August 2007
RU: 19 October 2007
CZ: 1 November 2007
DE: 7 March 2008

Genre(s)Survival horror,
Third-person shooterMode(s)Single-player

Kabus 22 is a 3D horror–action game set in Kadıköy district in Istanbul.^[1] The game is also known and was distributed as Fearzone Strefa 22 and as Sektor 22 in other countries and both feature different cover art.

The player has three characters to control; the Turkish soldier Demir, his girlfriend Ebru and the mysterious Inzar. These characters have to fight against a despotic religious order and creatures named Maduns in an alternate near future.

Development History

The game was developed by a small team of young developers called Son Işık Ltd founded in 2004; Inspired by survival horror games like Resident Evil they began working on the game the same year.

The development of the game took around 3 years and came with many unpredictable obstacles. The team had little to no experience in the game industry and had very limited internet access and budget.

Even after development had been completed, at the time in Turkey videogames didn't exist under the Turkish Legislation and so a tax stamp application could not applied, meaning they couldn't sell the game. The team were suggested to present the game as a film instead, this way they could get the tax stamp without changing the law.

Since no game publishers existed in their country and without any other alternatives, Vestel, a Turkish appliance store chain, was chosen as their publisher. The game was released during Christmast of 2006 only in Turkey, in the following years it was released in other countries, mainly in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Years later, after rebranding to Motion blur studio the game files were uploaded online for free as a thank you for everyone who played the game.^[2]

Promotion

K22: Demolition Day is a free FPS/arcade minigame. It is a promotion for horror–action PC CD-ROM game Kabus 22. The minigame was released on October 21, 2007. A player can either create an account and try to beat other players' records, or can play offline.

References

^ "İstanbul'u kötü adamdan kim kurtaracak". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 7 January 2007. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
^ Lorem Ipsum (2019-12-08). Kabus 22 | FİNAL BÖLÜM. Retrieved 2024-07-05 – via YouTube.